illogical policy

[triple5]

Hello triple5! The is exactly what I am trying to say. It is paying extra and I find that illogical. I go out late thinking I go home late. But business done and others cancelled and have to go home. Now to do this, I need to pay extra to be alout in or wait out there in cold for more hours.

If you travel off-peak and you say you forgot something back home and need be to be home, you have to pay? That to me is really very illogical. If you don't see that way I see it, then that is soooooooooooo understanding with the system.

But then anybody could buy the cheaper off peak ticket, turn up at the more expensive on peak times and say its cold I want to go home, finished early for the day, forgot my sandwiches, whatever. Everybody would take advantage of it.

[adam&chryss]

Seems perfectly clear to me.
I have evening and wknd calls on my BT phone which means something like i can call for free after 6pm and before 6am and from friday 6pm till monday 6am.
If I begin a call at 5.50am during the week and dont finish til 6.30am then i`m liable to pay for 30 mins of the call. Its irrelevant what time I begin the call!
I`m certain no-ones attacking you but to be honest I dont know what the problem is!
You can go home early but you have to pay as discussed, seems to make perfect sense.

[bless.books]

But then anybody could buy the cheaper off peak ticket, turn up at the more expensive on peak times and say its cold I want to go home, finished early for the day, forgot my sandwiches, whatever. Everybody would take advantage of it.

Hello triple5! Yes, there are all sorts of reasons one can make valid or not and again yes, most will take advantage if not all ... this is why I posted this thread to have a discussion on impositions made by the railway people. No matter how you plan your journey, we all know that things will go worng somewhere somehow ...